image: Wikimedia commons (link).

image: Wikimedia commons (link).

April 10 is the birthday of Bunny Wailer, born this day in 1947.

In 1963, at the age of 16, he formed the Wailers with his friends Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.

The music that has flowed out of that confluence has been and continues to be a powerful force for consciousness, freedom, human dignity, and the elevation of the spirit present in every man and woman -- and against oppression, degradation, enslavement, and the denial of that same spirit.

Happy birthday to Bunny Wailer: respect.

 

"This Train"
Available on the Blackheart Man album by Bunny Wailer (1976).


"Hallelujah Time"
Available on the Burnin' album by the Wailers (1973).


"Dreamland"
Available on the Bunny Wailer sings the Wailers album (1980).